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host: ray, seneca falls, new york. republican caller. caller: i have an interesting theory. let's make term limits for congress and the senate, then we will get people interested in helping the country out. all i see is bickering. host: how did you vote? caller: i voted for obama. i got sick and tired of listening to these guys are due. it is just ridiculous. host: let me and to those comments. the most under-discussed result of the election, a 9% approval of congress, but most incumbents were reelected. guest: that is a difference between recent elections. we have seen waive elections in 2008 and 2010. this time, both sides lost some people, but not a lot. incumbents usually do well. this is the first election in a while that a higher percentage of them did well. host: a couple of speculation pieces. but we begin with "the hill." were you hearing? -- what are you hearing? if you call there is a question whether nancy pelosi will -- host: if there is a question whether nancy pelosi will run to be minority leader. she is a force in the democratic party. she is a fund-raiser a
host: ray, seneca falls, new york. republican caller. caller: i have an interesting theory. let's make term limits for congress and the senate, then we will get people interested in helping the country out. all i see is bickering. host: how did you vote? caller: i voted for obama. i got sick and tired of listening to these guys are due. it is just ridiculous. host: let me and to those comments. the most under-discussed result of the election, a 9% approval of congress, but most incumbents were...
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guest: we look at whether people wanted some kind of balance in the house of representatives, the seneca the presidency. -- the senate, the presidency. we found that people were fairly favorable toward the status quo. a little bit more favorable for the president, for keeping a democratic senator, and they did like checks and balances. in other words, this came as a bit of a surprise for us, and also adds to the possibility of more gridlock. host: what are you seeing within individual parties? guest: we have seen a decline in ticket splitting in recent years. it used to be there was a lot of it. a famous example from the mid- 1980s was a couple hundred thousand voters in ohio who voted for president reagan as well as the late senator howard metzenbaum, who was very liberal. that is very -- not very common these days. we will see how it plays out tomorrow night. host: the latest poll projected that the 2012 electorate will be virtually unchanged from 2008. guest: that is right. we will see how it plays out again tomorrow night if we see a high minority turnout that we saw in 2008, as a di
guest: we look at whether people wanted some kind of balance in the house of representatives, the seneca the presidency. -- the senate, the presidency. we found that people were fairly favorable toward the status quo. a little bit more favorable for the president, for keeping a democratic senator, and they did like checks and balances. in other words, this came as a bit of a surprise for us, and also adds to the possibility of more gridlock. host: what are you seeing within individual parties?...
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host: ray, seneca falls, new york. republican caller. caller: i have an interesting theory. let's make term limits for congress and the senate, then we will get people interested in helping the country out. all i see is bickering. host: how did you vote? caller: i voted for obama. i got sick and tired of listening to these guys are due. it is just ridiculous. host: let me and to those comments. the most under-discussed result of the election, a 9% approval of congress, but most incumbents were reelected. guest: that is a difference between recent elections. we have seen waive elections in 2008 and 2010. this time, both sides lost some people, but not a lot. incumbents usually do well. this is the first election in a while that a higher percentage of them did well. host: a couple of speculation pieces. but we begin with "the hill." were you hearing? -- what are you hearing? if you call there is a question whether nancy pelosi will -- host: if there is a question whether nancy pelosi will run to be minority leader. she is a force in the democratic party. she is a fund-raiser a
host: ray, seneca falls, new york. republican caller. caller: i have an interesting theory. let's make term limits for congress and the senate, then we will get people interested in helping the country out. all i see is bickering. host: how did you vote? caller: i voted for obama. i got sick and tired of listening to these guys are due. it is just ridiculous. host: let me and to those comments. the most under-discussed result of the election, a 9% approval of congress, but most incumbents were...